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Matt Doocey: ACC Minister on increasing levies and new independent review · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So the ACC Minister has announced an independent review into
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  Speaker 1: ACC because of concerns about its performance. Matt Doocy says,
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  Speaker 1: rehabilitation rates that down, weekly compensation costs and average cost
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  Speaker 1: per claim we're up. That's not efficient. Not only that
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  Speaker 1: there was a seven point two billion dollar deficit, which
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  Speaker 1: is a worry. We were in surpace a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Matt Doocy joins, you now gimody to you, Matt,
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  Speaker 1: that's the mood Andrew, what are you going to look into?
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  Speaker 2: Basically, what I want to do from the external review
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  Speaker 2: it will be conducted within six months, is to seek
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  Speaker 2: assurance that ACC has the right settings and interventions in
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  Speaker 2: place to turn around their declining rehabilitation rates and to
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  Speaker 2: address the expansion of the number of people on long term.
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  Speaker 1: So is the review because you don't know why their
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  Speaker 1: numbers or their heading of targets has fallen. You don't
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  Speaker 1: know why they're not rehabilitating better, and you don't know
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  Speaker 1: why it's costing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when we look at the efficit a SEC posted
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  Speaker 2: in the last year about seven point two billion dollars,
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  Speaker 2: it's about a third a third and a third of
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  Speaker 2: that has increased costs through inflation and treatment costs. A
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  Speaker 2: third of it is to do with court rulings that
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  Speaker 2: have opened up entitlements, and a third of that is
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  Speaker 2: the declining rehabilitation rates. Now ACC is recently restructured. They've
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  Speaker 2: deployed an extra two hundred and fifty people on the
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  Speaker 2: front line, moved from a many to one case management
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  Speaker 2: approach to narrow one to one. So they're putting their
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  Speaker 2: systems and interventions in place. But I want to get
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  Speaker 2: experts in. They've got experience of accellent compensation schemes to
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  Speaker 2: give me assurance that every lever's been pulled to ensure
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  Speaker 2: we turn those declining reable session rates around.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and we'll good luck with that. Meanwhile, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the deficit means that you've announced increased levees leavies that
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  Speaker 1: are increasing by up to five percent a year for
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  Speaker 1: three years. Do you think if you have a successful
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  Speaker 1: review you could actually reverse those increasing levees, you could
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  Speaker 1: bring the cost down.
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  Speaker 2: Well. The advice I've got is that we need to
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  Speaker 2: do both at the moment is increase levees and also
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  Speaker 2: turn around the declining rehabilitation rates. What we're looking at
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  Speaker 2: the long term ten year horizon as Well, but I've
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  Speaker 2: been very clear with ACC. I don't want to see
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  Speaker 2: the increasing of ACC levees just been used as a
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  Speaker 2: default to address their deficit. They need to lift their performance.
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  Speaker 2: The advice I've got is even a one percent improvement
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  Speaker 2: and rehabilitation rates will have a significant impact in the
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  Speaker 2: long term on their deficit. And that's why we really
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  Speaker 2: want to drive up those rehabilitation rates.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's the deficit is mind blowing, an eye watering
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  Speaker 1: at seven point two more. So anything you can do, Matt,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and do it. It is now seven minutes
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  Speaker 1: to six. And by the way, levees for evs are
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  Speaker 1: going to go up about one hundred bucks, whereas levees
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  Speaker 1: for petrol vehicles going to go up about fifty. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why are the evs more dangerous? Apparently it's because the
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  Speaker 1: evs don't pay the petrol tax. But is that necessarily fair?
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  Speaker 1: He says as an EV owner.
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